Ray Halloran

Raymond "Raging Ray" Halloran was Sheriff of Atlantic City, New Jersey for a short period in 1921, in addition to serving as a deputy to Sheriff Eli Thompson. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1921 for the murder of Hans Schroeder, having betrayed his sheriff in addition to Treasurer Enoch Thompson.

Biography
Raymond Halloran was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey to a family of Irish Catholic ancestry. Halloran became a deputy of the local police department and served under Sheriff Eli Thompson, the brother of political boss Enoch Thompson. Halloran and Eli Thompson were both involved in the murder of Hans Schroeder in January 1920 on the orders of Enoch Thompson, dumping his body into the Atlantic Ocean. Halloran was briefly appointed Sheriff of Atlantic City after Enoch had Eli resign as Sheriff in the autumn of 1920 during election season, as the controversy surrounding the murder of Schroeder was ammunition for the US Democratic Party to use against Thompson's Republican Party. When Republican businessman Edward L. Bader was elected Mayor of Atlantic City in November 1920, Bader's first decision was to accept Halloran's "resignation" and replace him with Eli Thompson. Halloran went back to serving as his deputy, and he was involved in Eli's 1921 plot against Enoch Thompson. Halloran foolishly responded to a federal subpoena to testify against Enoch Thompson for ordering the murder of Schroeder, and he implicated Eli in the murder of Schroeder. This led to Eli Thompson ordering for a crowd of strikebreakers to savagely beat Halloran during the disruption of the 1921 Atlantic City general strike, and Thompson later told Halloran to reflect on his actions and learn from them. Halloran was sentenced to prison time at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas when Enoch Thompson's indictment was decided to be a mistril, as Halloran's plea bargain was only admissable if Enoch Thompson was convicted; he had confessed to murdering a person, the equivalent of a guilty verdict.